You are free only if your joy and happiness are not attached to anyone or anything. Otherwise, whether you are locked up in prison or walking down the street, you are still your own prisoner.

- Sadhguru (Enlightened Being, Enlightened Yogi, Mystic, Visionary Humanitarian, Outstanding Spiritual Teacher)

Roderick's army on the left flank, which had 25,000 Lucy's second-line warriors at the beginning of the battle, had been reduced to more than 19,000 after three rounds of charges by Antio's Hammer Legion, but the main force was still there, and they were not devastated.

But when the Nelson Roman Spear Legion rushed over and outflanked and besieged the Lucy warriors, it brought a devastating blow to the Lucy's left-wing army, and Roderick, who intended to sacrifice for time, did not get any chance at all.

After dividing, encircling, charging, and annihilating more than a dozen times, the number of Lucy warriors killed by the Roman Spear Legion quickly surpassed the number of Lucie warriors killed by the Heavy Hammer Legion, and on the basis of the former, it further inflicted heavy losses on Lucy's left flank army.

Roderick, who was the commander of Lucy's left-wing army, had six or seven thousand soldiers gathered around him, but he couldn't even touch the shadow of Nelson's cavalry, and could only sit back and watch the soldiers under his command be broken by Nelson's cavalry.

When Roderick's left-wing army, the number of soldiers gradually dropped from more than 19,000 to 14,000, and these second-line soldiers, who were not as strong as the standing soldiers, finally began to collapse, and the first warrior to turn around and flee was soon born on the battlefield.

Like dominoes, all Lucy warriors fought to the death until no warrior fled, but when the first warrior to escape appeared, more and more Lucie warriors, who were unable to fight again, chose to flee to end the battle that cost them heavy casualties.

Roderick, who was in the midst of the chaos, even though he wanted to do something, was unable to do anything because of the distance, and no matter how loudly he shouted, scolded, persuaded, and encouraged, the soldiers who fled did not return to the battlefield.

For those Lucy warriors who abandoned the battle and fled, Nelson did not send cavalry to pursue them at all, he only led his troops to continue to storm the enemy troops who still fought to the death, and this extremely obvious contrast made more Lucy warriors who had no intention of fighting again abandon the battle and flee like their previous robes.

In the rapidly changing battlefield, Lucy's left-wing army went from fighting to the death to the collapse of the whole army, but it was only a matter of a few minutes, and Roderick, who was willing to save the defeat but was unable to return to the sky, could only lead the soldiers around him to launch a decisive charge against Nelson.

Nelson, who had successfully defeated seven or eight thousand Lucy warriors, still had nearly eight thousand cavalry under his command, so in the face of Roderick's decisive charge, he did not dodge the edge, but commanded his cavalry and launched the same cluster charge as the hoplites!

Charged in a group of nearly 8,000 barbarian light cavalry, facing the decisive charge of more than 6,000 Lucy warriors, Nelson, who was in danger of the invincibility of Antio's hoplites, was determined to prove the fighting power of his cavalry with a sure victory.

The crux of the question is, can the barbarian light cavalry that has undergone systematic special training and have been transferred to a systematic high-quality war horse be comparable in combat effectiveness to that of the barbarian heavy cavalry who have also undergone systematic special training and transferred to a systematic high-quality war horse?

The reason why the hoplites are hoplites is because they have a super impact power that the light cavalry does not have; if the greatest advantage of the light cavalry is mobility, then the greatest advantage of the hoplite cavalry is the powerful impact power that no other class of troops can match.

If the light cavalry were to perform the heavy cavalry, would the group charge still be able to exert its original attack power? Nelson, who was a little irrational, obviously made an extremely irresponsible decision.

Seeing the Roman Spear Corps face off against the remnants of Lucy's left flank was nothing short of torture for Luquis, who was in the rear, but Luques was never a pure military commander, and he could understand why Nelson had made such a ridiculous move.

Understandably, it does not mean that Luquis can accept his generals and make such a reckless and stupid decision; before the war is over, Luques has already decided: whether Nelson can retain his position as commander after the war depends on the casualties of his soldiers.

It turned out to be a foolish act for the light cavalry to charge in clusters and fight a dense group of infantry head-on, and the light cavalry under Nelson's command could not penetrate the battle formation of the remnants of Lucy's left flank even if they charged with all their might, and could not even tear apart the enemy's battle formation.

The price of a group of light cavalry that failed to charge was not only that it could not cut through the enemy's battle formation, but also that the enemy warriors who quickly surrounded it and slashed the encircled cavalry with their angry swords and battle axes.

The leather-clad light cavalry, along with their unarmored horses, wailed for their lives under the swords and tomahawks of the enemy warriors, while Nelson, unwilling to be defeated, urged his cavalry to continue the charge.

Half an hour later, Antio's Hammer Army had completed three charges against Hale's Lucy's right flank, while Nelson's Roman Spear Army was still entangled in the remnants of Lucy's left flank and could not break free.

According to the previous plan, Antio should immediately retreat from the battle and retreat to the rear after completing the disturbance of Lucy's right flank army, but the accident of the Roman Spear forced Antio to make new adjustments to the original plan.

Otherwise, Lucy's right-wing army, which had just been divided into more than a dozen pieces, would quickly recover its combat strength, and the Roman spear legion, which was besieged by the remnants of Lucy's left-wing army, might also be besieged by Lucy's army, and then there was a danger of annihilation.

Since the birth of the city of Rome, the powerful city of Rome has never been completely wiped out on the battlefield, and if a single army is wiped out because of this battle, I am afraid that all the generals who participated in the war will have been in vain.

Antio, who was in a hurry, didn't hesitate too much, and after a little thought, he decided to lead his army back to the left flank of the enemy!

Seeing that his established plans were all disrupted, what could Luquis say except to shake his head helplessly? For Nelson, who disobeyed orders without permission, he must be severely punished after the war, and as for Antio, he only did what a qualified general should do.

After receiving reinforcements from Antio's 3,000 heavy cavalry, the situation of Nelson's light cavalry became instantly easier, and the remnants of Lucy's left flank, who were caught off guard, could not stop the cluster charge of the heavy cavalry of the Heavy Hammer Legion, and they were defeated as soon as the two sides clashed.

This time, the remnants of Lucy's left flank were no longer frightened by the heavy cavalry charge, because Hall, who had taken advantage of the situation to reorganize the army, had already led Lucy's right flank army, which still had 20,000 troops under his command, to reinforce the left flank.

The battle situation, which had been under Luquis's control, was finally turned unrecognizable by Nelson's impulse, and how long the two cavalry legions, surrounded by enemy forces, could hold out after losing their mobility depended on their own performance.